Pathfinder Kickstarter

So the team at Pathfinder are doing a Kickstarter to drum up investment interest in their MMO project. So for once I am putting my money where my mouth is and I’ve thrown them some cash and helped them with their pledge. Now normally I am a great deal more cynical than this, but I figured that if this does get off the ground then hopefully my actions will assure me getting in with the first wave. Also, if in the future it somehow becomes really big, then I will have some very rare mementos of its humble beginnings, which could become valuable. Or not. But heck, I may as well try.

Their goal is $50,000, but already they have raised $30,000 in barely half a day, and the USA hasn’t even really woken up yet. So I think they’re going to cruise this one in. It just goes to show how much desire there is out there in the community for someone to do a fantasy MMO the way we had always hoped it could be made.

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The thing I notice about blogs recently is that very few [yours is an exception] seem to rave about games that exist– they either rave about upcoming products right up to the point where they are released and turn out not to be the best game ever; or they rave about some awesome amazing fantasy concept that would totally work and be the best game ever if only those evil money-grubbing game companies would make it.

What I’m getting at is that I don’t think a person would need to read all that many blogs to know what trendy ideas they can sell this week on Kickstarter.

In the end there are worse things to throw money at than the chance of innovation, but I guess what I’d like to see is a better vetting process for the people who receive this money than their ability to put together a convincing Kickstarter page.

Yes, the fanboy love that games get pre-release is a special syndrome that I enjoy mocking. I do feel however, that this game has a chance to get some things right. Not all things, of course, but merely a few. Which after the haphazard crapfest of the last few years would be a nice change.